Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Tens of thousands of men and women* have been saying in these last sad days 'Mr. Herrick was my friend.' I can but repeat their thought with heartfelt gratitude. He was my friend [very huskily] just as he was theirs.
It is known in France how to honor even the greatest of heroes, not by many words, but with a few deeds less cheap. During the two days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last week−beneath the Emperor Napoleon's tremendous Arch of Triumph...
Hundreds of cases, involving tens of millions of dollars, came into his charge. When Motorman Ford launched his attacks on the Jews (TIME, May 2, 1927 et ante), Lawyer Longley found himself pitted against such famed Manhattan legalites as Samuel Untermyer and Louis Marshall in the most celebrated libel suits...
Chuckles were heard in tens of thousands of British homes when the famed London weekly Sketch arrived and was ruffled over to a peculiarly English full page cartoon in decorous pastel colors.
Admirers of much-lionized Sacha Guitry merely shrugged their regret at the failure of Charles Lindbergh, remarking that, helas, the Parisian public has even ignored, this year, the "Lindbergh Dolls," of which tens of thousands were sold last Christmas.